The case against four men accused of plotting to bomb New York synagogues and shoot down military planes will not focus on whether they were members of a terrorist group, a federal prosecutor said yesterday.

That appeared to sit well with the judge, who said she had been referring to the case privately as “the un-terrorist case.”

The trial is “going to be about whether these guys were going to blow something up,” Assistant US Attorney David Raskin said at a pretrial hearing, and a fellow prosecutor said the government will not present any evidence of membership in terrorist groups.

“It’s not going to be about foreign terrorist organizations,” Raskin said.